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LOT 0612
Greek Gold Ring with Rosette and Filigree
5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
1 in. (6.37 grams, 25.62 mm overall, 22.66 mm internal diameter (approximate size British R 1/2, USA 8 3/4, Europe 19.38, Japan 18)).
With granule to each shoulder, discoid bezel with beaded wire rim, ropework band and central cinquefoil motif.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12388-226931.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 66.
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